The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1887-07-22
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and rubbish, and neatly mown. Don't
let them be a nursery of weed seed.
Those who have practiced soiling
sufficiently to test it, know il to be
most valuable mid in the economy of
dairying.
OF the tweny-seven farmers in the
lower house of the Dakota legislature,
twenty-five We're college graduates.
1t is never worth while to attempt
three or four days work in one, unless
day or two can be spared for rest after
eSacting performance.
One hundred and twenty-three new
oranges have been organized in the
United States so far this year, against
ninety-one for all of last year.
Botanists include in the grass family
barley, wheat, oats, corn, rice, timothy,
redtop, blue grass, sugar corn, sor-
ghum, etc. Clover, the most valuable
of forage plants, is not grass, but
legume.
President Adams of Cornell Univer-
sity says in the fertility of the soil ma
ture seems to be a beneficent and all
bountiful mother. But it is the all per-
vasive law of nature that the mother
that feeds us requires in turn to be fed.
To neglect your hay harvest because
it is too much trouble, and then buy
hay for winter use, would be no more
suicidal than it is TO fail to care for man.
ure, because it is ''too much trouble,n
and buy fertilizers for the farm.
/ Rotten manure, when well made, is
more concentrated than fresh, having
diminished in weight during fermen-
/ tation, with but little loss of valuable
constituents. Some of the constituents
have also become more soluble.
/ OF the hundreds of leaks on every
| farm but few, if any, are more damag-
/ ing than a lealxy stable floor. Have the
floor tight, and some kind Of absorbent
on it to take up and hold the liquid
manure. This is for men who have no
celler.
/ The squash-root borer is destroyed
with saltpeter, an ounce to gallon of
water. Pour the solutions on the soil
about the plants soon after the young
plants have come up, and repeat the
operation two or three times after inter
walls of four or five days.
There is probably no class of persons
so badly overworked as women on the
the farms. The difficulty of getting
the proper kind of female help, with
early breakfasts and late suppers, inn
po Is the heaviest burdens.
A thorough farmer, who knows his
business, will never worry about sorrel.
1t is as good as anything to hold the
land together till we are able Ia enrich
! it and grow more profitable crop.
/ When we get ready to do that the sor-
rel will back out before any properly fed
crop of better sort, and stay out until
nothing more vigorous wants that spot,
or is ready to take it.
When the soil becomes hard and COM
pact. the air and heat cannot enter;
and when a shower falls, unless it lasts
/ long enough to completely soften the
upper crust, the water required by the
plants runs off and no benefit is gain
ed. BY keeping the earth loose the
heat goes down and surplus water eva
porates.
Cultivate the corn as long as it can be
done. 1t is a crop that should have the
ground plowed deep before the seed is
planted, but frequent and shallow cul-
tivatiOn should be given while it is
growing. The surface of the ground
alone should be stirred, and the oftener
it is melIowed and loosened the better
for the crop.
Cut off the cucumbers with knife or
scissors, and on no account pull or twist
them of. One reason why so many
vines die as soon as they begin to bear
is that the vines are injured in cultiva-
ton or in gathering the fruit Cut free
ly and often, for as soon as the seeds
begin to increase in size the flowers
cease TO set.
Now comes the stripped cucumber or
squash beetle in the garden, and he is
indeed a most dangerous enemy unless
taken in hand at once. The Ohio En-
pertinent Station recommends the use
Of kerosene applied to a cloth and placed
near the hills, as an almost certain
remedy from the ravages of the obnox-
ious beetle above named.
The cabbage-worm is the IarYa of the
white butterfly, and should be hand
picked before the first brood has passed
the perfect state. Pyrethrum mixed
with five times its weight of plaster,
busted into the center of the leaves
with sulphur bellows, is said to be ef-
fectual. Paris green is unsafe to use
after the leaves are four inches long.
English beef is no longer the best in
the world, but its mutton maintains its
superiority, and it is largely fattened on
turnips. Their offensive taste in milk
when fed to miIch cows docs not APP
pear in the meat While not them
selves very nutritious, yet turnips pro-
mote good digestion, on which rapid
fattening ana the good juicy quality of
the meat largely depend.
1t is a wasteful policy, that of ex-
hausting the soil so it will no longer
pay the costs of cultivation. The feed
ing of stock, carting the manure on the
land and proper rotation will keep the
soil intact. Hence it is more profitable
everywhere to feed all the coarse grain
on the farm than to sell. Once the ex-
haustive process is begun it becomes
every year more difficult to make a
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